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PKKKACE 



The greatest difliculty in tlu! teiichin;; of agrieul • 

 tuiv is tt) tell what agrieullmv is. To the seieutist, 

 a;^riculturi' has been larjjjely an api>li<';irion of the 

 tfaehin;;s of ai,'ricultural ehemistry; to the stoekiiian, 

 it is ehirfly the raising of animals ; to the hoi-ticul- 

 tnrist, it may l)e frnit -growing, tlower-growing, or 

 nursery business ; and evcry<tne, ^in^•t' tin- cstaldish- 

 ment of the agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations, is certain that it is a science. The fact 

 ;s, howcvrr. that agriculture is jmi-sucd ptiniarily 

 for the gaining of a livrlihood, not for the exU'Usion 

 of knowledge : it is, therefore, a business, not a sci- 

 ence. But at every point, a knowledge of science aids 

 the busin«'ss. It is on the scienee side that the 

 experimenter is able to help the fanner. On the 

 business side the farmer must rely upon himself ; for 

 the person who is not a good business man cannot 

 be a giMtd fanner, however rnueh he may know of 

 science. These statements an- no (lisparagen)ent of 

 seieuce. for, in these days, facts of science and scieu- 

 titic habits of thought are essential to the best 

 farming, but they are intended to emphasize the 



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